skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a straw man argument. You are reducing the claims made by both sides here into a function that adds primitives REALLY?

You know full well that this is complete BS. Nothing meaningful(including the original blog post) can be done in JS and have the code emitted even come close to the compiled code of the C implementation of the same function. Sure a few bytes here and there MAY be the same and therefore execute in a similar amount of time (as long as a GC Cycle doesn't happen to run in the middle of it) - but it is ridiculous to even compare the two overall in this manner.

As for C not being the be-all and end-all of programming languages... Who ever made this claim? Personally - I don't even like using C. Are you trying to create a diversionary argument to make-up for the edge case you presented that MAY execute as fast as a C compiler output?

Please only reply with real challenges. Not edge cases.
Step 1: Just give up on making your app run on every version of Android ever released. Unless you are the kind of person who tests web apps in Netscape and IE5, there is no reason to test on devices running Android 2.3 or earlier.

Step 2: Buy actual devices to test your app with, and test well. If you can't justify the money or time it would take to support a particular device (e.g. because only two of your users have it), then don't support it.

Step 3: Use the application manifest's compatibility features to prevent the Play store from showing your app to users running with unsupported devices. There is unfortunately no way to whitelist individual device models, but you can get pretty close by combining properties like the minimum SDK or required device features.

Step 4: Sit back and laugh at your competitors bending over backwards to fix a intermittent crash found only on a particular phone model (sold in 2009 by an out-of-business Chinese company) running a modified Cyanogenmod 7.
Since you have a fully documented style guide (which I presume needs to be stuck to), why not just prototype ideas directly with HTML/CSS?
Rogue Angel -> Angel that will use some of their money in order to get a bit of stock which they then use in a minority shareholder lawsuit in order to try to leverage that into a larger amount. Start-ups can't have distractions like that so people that pull that stunt can hold you over a barrel. I've seen this up close and it isn't pretty.

Investment bankers are not bad by definition, but on the whole they're worth a lot less than they give themselves credit for. They presume to be an in-dispensable part of the deal universe but in actual fact they can be as much of a hindrance as they can be a help. Oh, and they always want to be paid, even when they don't perform at all.
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I don't think WoW is inherently evil - were you referring to your parent poster, or me? I just think nearly everyone in this addiction subthread is woefully underinformed about the realities of addiction.
Cool! I wish I had seen this earlier. My friend and I are flying in from MD but have already made sleeping arrangements. Any chance to come visit and meet people anyway? Do you have any suggestions for who/what to visit while we are in town? We've never been to CA before.
> Hint - that's clearly false. Disagree? How does evolution matter outside biology? Too hard? Name three biology subfields that don't work without evolution? Too hard? Name three things in biology that were predicted using evolution?

Gish Galloping wins you no support. It's a dishonest tactic that attempts to flood the opposition with questions that require more time to answer than they do to ask. It's a Denial of Service attack, not an argument.

> Clearly false when Akin said it, but what does everyone say to a couple trying to get pregnant? Yup - "you've got to maintain a positive mental attitude." (I don't know whether mental attitude matters - I'm just pointing out the double-standard.)

Because Akin was minimizing rape. He was trying to de-legitimize the experiences of victims of a violent crime. Do you really not understand how people get upset over that?
I don't know why I am wasting my breath either since it is not my law that abstractions (if both implementations are sound) always come with a performance tradeoff. It is just a fact (therefore considered a law), not made up by me.
That's exactly the question that Mike's whole post is answering. It turns out that the common optimizations like hoisting, CSE, tail-merging, etc. perform badly on direct-threaded interpreter code. Which is one of the primary reasons Mike wrote the interpreter for LuaJIT2 in hand-written assembly instead of C.
The launch coverage was too clinical. 1,800 employees behind the company and they must be absolutely ecstatic right now. There were very brief audio snippets where you could hear cheering, but it would have been great to have gotten to feel what it's like to be there inside Launch Control. NASA Curiosity did a much better job of this, with applause, cheering, hugs, and high fives.

Congratulations to the whole team at SpaceX!
Which is why you sanitize input. Which every sql-communicating system must eventually do somewhere - this is no different.

Besides, that's just an example snippet.
Your position is baffling.

It's not a quote from spamhaus. It's me re-wording your text.

> Why the heck aren't the millions of people on dynamic IP's using this capability? Answer: They do not know it exists.

No. Millions of people have no interest in running their own email server. What benefit do most people get from running their own server? (Where most people are those who have one or two email addresses, which they use for a couple of hundred contacts.) What benefit do small businesses get from running their own email server, rather than paying someone else to host the server?

> If the vast majority of email sent directly to recipients from dynamic IP's was low volume and noncommercial, the "bad apples" would be overshadowed by the good ones.

You clearly have no idea just how many spam emails were being sent. Something like 90% - 95% of all email was UBE. Much of this was sent from botnetted machines, and many of those would have been on dynamic IPs.

> anti-spam zealots

Conversation is fruitless if you attack the people who have the same aims as you.

> People arguing against any sort of consumer education on something so basic as internet messaging are an interesting spectacle to behold

But you're not suggesting to educate people on internet messaging. You're suggesting that people are educated on installing and maintaining a mail server.
And you like to cherry pick what you deem relevant to the discussion and demonize a harmless diversion that millions of people dally in daily with no repercussions to the rest of their life.

Look, I'm sorry you've had a bad time and got addicted to WoW. That doesn't make it an inherently addictive thing. Some people can play it in their spare time without issue; others can't. Not everybody is the same.
Congrats to SpaceX on a successful launch and a great webcast!
You're quoting the wrong notability page. "Determining notability does not necessarily depend on things like fame, importance, or popularity"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability
New Orleans:

- Emerging startup scene and growing ecosystem for nurturing startups

- Established companies bringing big offices here:
-- GameLoft, 8 jobs open, more to come (http://www.jobsinnola.com/New/index.htm)
-- GE Capital, 35 jobs open, hiring 300 by 2015 (http://jobs.gecareers.com/go/GE-Capital-Jobs/236076/?filter=...)

- Excellent cost of living, excellent culture, excellent food, laid back atmosphere
Sure, come on by.. give me your email and I'll give you the address.
Perhapse you should talk to nurses who stand all day or doctors take care of them? See venous insufficiency and lower extremity edema. I recommend Ted hose...good luck .
"Vehicle is supersonic."

gives me the shivers every time
Wow, OnLive has been around for a long time!
Same thing in Seattle! I went to an Apple Store there with a friend and we found an Microsoft store across the parking lot. The exterior and some of the decor were similar, but the Microsoft products were much more haphazard (different brands, OS versions, some weren't working, etc...).
Hey Patrick, thanks! Hows it going? Pretty stressful here.. give me a call and we'll talk sometime.
Wow, I'm of the opinion that ThinkPads have the best laptop keyboards by far. Sharp keys? Which model did you use?
I have also spoken to the landlord about this. We are on good terms.
Hold on, it's more complicated than that, but we'll get back to that in a second.

NASA contracted to launch the Curiosity rover on the Atlas V rocket, for example, so how is this different? Well, the Atlas V wasn't developed commercially, it was developed as part of the EELV program. This was a USAF program which sought to develop launch vehicles to carry military payloads into orbit in the future. Boeing and Lockheed Martin developed those launch vehicles (which became the Delta IV and Atlas V) but government had a lot of say on the design of the vehicles and ultimately paid for most of the development cost of the vehicles. This is different from SpaceX's example where they developed their own launcher from scratch to their own design, specs, and manufacturing and management processes, etc.

Also, if you look at other NASA launches in recent history the contrast is even stronger. NASA drove and funded development of the Delta II, the Shuttle, the Saturn V, etc, etc.

Additionally, operations for the spacecraft component, the Dragon, is being handled by SpaceX themselves and not by NASA, which is a new thing, especially in the realm of manned spaceflight.

NASA isn't just buying launches, nor are they just buying Dragon spacecraft and launches, they are buying cargo delivered to ISS.
>Yes. Exactly. Let's say there are two languages A and B, and A is compiled (be it JIT or AOT) by a smarter compiler, resulting in faster code than the same program written in language B, how does that not make language A faster?

Well I am talking about the performance limitations imposed by the laws of physics. Not which compiler is better. I can always find a better or worse C or JS compiler/JITter so that proves nothing.

Doing more (Which a more highly abstracted languages must do) in less time with all else being the same is not possible as we understand quantum physics today.
If you follow much of his writing/tweeting, he doesn't disguise much opinion, which has a liberal slant - but the pure math of his project is pretty hard to argue against.
On the client side, there were lots of bugs, some are discussed in this SO thread:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/274290/any-big-sites-usin...

You'd have to do hacky browser xslt detection as detailed here: http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=6779...

XML in this context apparently pretty much died because of too many badly written parsers, libraries and browsers - and to some extent probably also because dominant search engines would not index XML files properly (see http://news.oreilly.com/2008/06/why-xslt-support-in-the-brow...).

But nowdays at least there are some reasonably portable solutions like http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/Transform (but that's unnecessarily slow).

On the server side, it should be fairly simple, unless you hit bugs/deficiencies (like wasting memory / leaks) in libraries ...
The non chiclet ones are still great. Perhaps not as good as the IBM ThinkPads but I think they're still better than anything the competition offers.
The best desk is neither stand up nor sit down, but fully adjustable between the two. Staying in any one position for lengthy periods of time can be harmful.
It is tough for many hackers to get their hands on the machines you mention there, but I could see something like that taking off with all the Raspberry Pis that are being delivered as we speak.
Should be back up now - grab it while it lasts.
Thanks for the insight. I think sometimes we all hope this is what will happen automatically considering all the time we put into our projects, but it doesn't end up being a realistic strategy.
Reminds me of the meme "reality has a well-known liberal bias". I don't know or suspect whether that's true or not. But I have noticed personally in life that whenever someone is both intelligent, educated, is compassionate/empathic and does long-term thinking, that person also seems to be "liberal", progressive or left-leaning, politics wise. Perhaps not always. But most of the time, based on my observations. I think if you have those traits but take away compassion/empathy, and focus more on short-term/short-range thinking, you're more likely to be "conservative", or right-leaning.
Have you used a pre-2011 Macbook? My 2010 MBP has sharp edges, so they leave marks on my forearms. Not very comfortable.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2471321

The Magic Mouse is even less comfortable. I don't know how they expect people to hold that for any significant period.
Thank you.. this will be the first approach I take, trying to find some key users who might find it interesting and listen to their feedback.
Please stop with the X higher level language can be faster than C unless you can challenge the limitations imposed by the laws of physics. Not which compiler is better. I can always find a better or worse C or JS compiler/JITter so that proves nothing.

Doing more (Which all more highly abstracted languages currently do) in less time with all else being the same is not possible as we understand quantum physics today.

This title is clearly linkbait...
I think even a 2d map with a dot for the object would be serviceable and neat in cases like this. Maybe draw the flight path in a swath that changes color over altitude.

In example, think how meteorologists on TV use color on a map to show the how much rain has fallen.

dark green -> green -> dark yellow -> yellow -> orange -> red -> blinking purple

Just use a gradient with colors that won't interfere with whatever map you're using. Maybe just "yellow -> orange -> red" as it progresses to its target. Then once it hits it, switch to white, and continue to chart the movement as long as you broadcast.
I agree with the author, but I don't think that dissolving the SEC will solve the problem of the SEC. The SEC is corrupt, but no one cares enough to fix it.

I think the way to do it is to create an new exchange whose primary focus is to create a level playing field for all participants. This means that things are done fairly, and people won't game the system. Anyone who games the system will be forbidden from trading on it. This also means that they will enforce their own rules at a stricter level than what the SEC would regulate at.

If investors are truly concerned about fairness in the system, then eventually, an exchange like this could get enough liquidity to compete against NYSE and NASDAQ.

If you read "Dark Pools" by Scott Patterson, he describes how Island was created by a lone hacker, Josh Levine, and he completely disrupted the industry. Maybe there's room for another disruption, along the lines of fairness.
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Everyone loves their own brand, although I'm not sure this correlation between someone calling your actual (human) baby ugly was the proper metaphor.
Another awesome SpaceX launch, very nice. Instead of hats and t-shirts from the SpaceX store I'd love to see them offer that 'launch workstation config' (three monitors, wrap around table) I'd get one of those for my lab in a heartbeat.
Well the proof is in the pudding. His performance on the 2008 and 2010 election indicate to me he's not some partisan hack. He accurately predicted all of the EVs Obama obtained in 2008 with the exception of Indiana (which was quite close - only a few hundred votes in the margin IIRC). He did exceptionally well in 2010, coming in 3rd for accuracy behind Survey USA and PPP (A democratic shop, incidentally) in house race prediction.

Silver is politically liberal but he's a stats guy at heart.

The republican equivalent would be Unskewed Polls http://unskewedpolls.com/ which re-weights partisan affiliation of polls to match Rasmussen (The result: Romney is WAY ahead). It's author isn't a big stats guy and goes more off gut. This comparison isn't entirely fair though. Republican polsters and aggregators are probably private, working inside campaigns and not for a public news organization.

You can be politically liberal or conservative and not have it directly spill into your work.
Also, it's a house, not an apartment.
Honesty comes first, definitely agree. I don't think that was ever questioned. What was questioned was delivery. Delivery is important because it overcomes the innate skepticism of many people (which can also have emotional and professional ramifications). Honesty and delivery are orthogonal concerns.

Also, the article is about giving feedback, not taking it. The fact that you prefer to take harsh/honest criticism rather than overly-friendly/dishonest feedback is irrelevant (and is also a false dichotomy). You appear to state this to refute any a need to be concerned with delivery at all; your personal preference doesn't change the reality for the rest of society.

So, regarding giving feedback, if your objective is to improve the recipient's chances of success, it behooves you to communicate your (honest) feedback in a way that reduces as much distrust as possible. Techniques for this are given in the article.

But again, I agree, honesty underpins all of this.
The problem with developers is they have no idea what is ugly or not. That's why they wear so many geeky and trade polo shirts! Typescript is not ugly at all, and the majority of web application developers in my office liked the look of it. It is more the self proclaimed uber geeks who have a my way or the highway mentality. No hire.
Unlike some, I see no problem with this being on the front page. That said, I do have a question, why is the '10' smaller than the other numbers? This seems to be the same with the cards you forked.
That's been my point all along. There are always going to be locations where the beer flows like wine. But that isn't everywhere.

New York state or New Jersey versus North Dakota right now might be a better analogy than Manhattan for a wildcatter. Sure, there are probably wells in NY and NJ, but the big money is in ND.
Your posts contain a baffling mix of incompatible ideas.

You argue against block listing, but then suggest blocking the entire Internet except the few people you want to send you email.

You say that only people who you have given your email address to should be able to send you email, and then you say there should be a lookup system to get email addresses. (But what's the point of the email directory system if you can't send email to someone because they haven't white listed you yet?)

> but I don't receive important email from all that many different people.

Eh, depending what you mean by "important" I do receive a lot of important email from lots of different people. My email addresses have been used on the public Internet for many years, and I've had a lot of communication to those email addresses, and those communications have brought me great joy. And I also have a variety of people who email me about work related stuff - I won't have prior knowledge of those people.

I think I'm missing something about your system. Please, is it something that you already have well planed out? (Even if not in a state that can be deployed yet) Or is this something that you've just started thinking about?

So long as you're not suggesting Challenge Response we can have a discussion about it.
Yeah - definitely a couple years. They're in early testing right now. It was just "proved" through computer simulations a few months ago.
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Either way, there is more to it than Dale Carnegie.
PCs bought from the Microsoft store have a customized OS image that removes crapware, comes with MSE instead of some trial version of McAfee etc. That is IMO reason enough by itself for the stores to exist (from a Windows brand image perspective). Besides, Best Buy et al aren't terribly healthy these days - something has to take up the slack.
I bet one of these are him:

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/greg-pfountz/5/41a/4a1

https://twitter.com/gpfountz
Cutting the sentence off in the middle doesn't help your case.

"Determining notability does not necessarily depend on things like fame, importance, or popularity—although those may enhance the acceptability of a subject that meets the guidelines explained below".

I also note the page has been marked for merging, so I'm hardly alone in my opinion.
While that sounds great, i wonder what the advantage to that is over using parachutes and making a water landing like the Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters did.
My fathers death was not expected, and, while tight, we were able to live fine before he died. Two incomes turned to one as us kids grew older, taller, more needy. I don't think it's an offensive question, and my situation influenced me to stop at 2 kids.
I completely agree. In particular, it's important to realize that it is possible to be mean and constructive at the same time, and that being constructive is not an excuse for being mean.

But to go so far in the other direction as to denounce all criticism is a huge error.
It wasn't factually incorrect, you just didn't understand him because you're not using the video-game-specific meaning of the word "server."

As you suggested, it refers to multiple "parallel dimensions" between which the playerbase is split to avoid overpopulation; that's how almost all other MMOs work. Whether each of those runs on a single physical computer is irrelevant to anyone except the host.
Since it's a kerosene-fueled rocket motor (RP-1), there's only one kind of cryogenic tank per stage, and that's the LO2 tanks. So you're correct, that's the only possibility.
Hey, please get that gun out of my face!

If you don't like the way an exchange plays, make your own exchange that has better rules and that operates transparently, or patronize one that does.

Besides being morally wrong (this is supposed to be a free country), regulation harms innovation, results in winner-picking, and results in regulatory capture. Nothing good can come of it.
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Fortran is not exactly a general purpose language though, it's specifically designed for the sorts of problems that scientific and HPC tends to deal with, and it's probably rare especially nowadays to see it used anywhere else. I'm guessing there aren't any web frameworks written in Fortran (though I'm sure someone will now point one out....)
Uh, the only people you trust to work on production code are those that think their work is "ugly" (which, in the context of the article, was a euphemism for harsh, one-sided, a-hole ripping condemnation)?

Oh, but you cited evidence. Assuming you trust yourself to work on production code, it's a universal truth that all trustworthy people must think they're spawn is ugly because you yourself were able to do that with your son. Congratulations?
This would be kewl, shame I'm already in a similar share house. GL with your search.
Two mentions in any medium make a topic notable for Wikipedia purposes. This event's article cites 19. The "notability police" wouldn't go near it. Why do you think I'm "making a case", or would need to? This discussion effectively ended hours ago, it's only continuing to muck up the real discussion on this story because you feel compelled to argue with me for some reason. If you feel the need to continue, tweet me or something, this pointless back-and-forth doesn't belong on HN.
I agree, reading HN new is a totally different experience than reading the front page. I always read new and find a lot of good stuff.
I wrote a small, ScraPy based HN crawler available at http://github.com/mvanveen/hncrawl in case anyone is interested.